I’ve just installed Matlab 2020a on Linux Mint 19 and I had an issue that the Doc doesn’t show anything but blank page. To fix it, installing Chromium Web Browser and disable Windows Effect in System Setting.
For coding font: Fira Code (free on Google Font) is a very good choice. Don’t forget to turn on anti-alias, it might improve your experience.
I’m writing this post as I need to install node.js and npm to install packages for reveal.js, I’m on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic.
Normally we can install node.js via terminal by
sudo apt install nodejs
But this is not the best way since the version is outdated and some dependencies won’t meet. The best way to install the latest node.js and npm is via nvm.
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.8/install.sh | bashNote that the version number can be checked by going directly to the website and see. The above script will download all the package and put nvm into the Linux alias (so we can use the nvm command globally). After this, log out and log in to activate the alias.
Once you log in, run below script
nvm install nodeTo update:
nvm install node
nvm alias default nodenvm install node
nvm alias default node
From this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/1009527
“Mathematicians do not recognize their discipline in such descriptions. We see arithmetic and algebra as tools used in doing mathematics, just as hammers and handsaws are tools used in carpentry. For professionals, mathematics is about curiosity, imagination, and solving problems. There are questions that are instinctive and natural for mathematicians that rarely occur to those looking in from the outside. There is such a thing as a mathematical view of the world. Sadly, it is a view that is too often hidden from those struggling to learn the subject.”
From the book Taking Sudoku seriously
Blender là phần mềm thiết kế 3D nguồn mở.
YADE là phần mềm mô hình phần tử rời rạc, cũng nguồn mở.
YADE có thể tạo một khối hình học 3D và hỗ trợ tương đối khiêm tốn: hình hộp, hình cầu, xi-lanh….
Tuy nhiên, những hỗ trợ căn bản của YADE nhiều lúc không phục vụ được nhu cầu thực tế của xây dựng dân dụng. Đặc biệt khi người dùng cần fill particles vào trong một khối có hình dạng ngẫu nhiên. Rất may là YADE có hỗ trợ định dạng GTS và có một công cụ giúp chuyển đổi file từ STL (một dạng file 3D thông dụng từ blender) sang GTS, đó là stl2gts. Câu lệnh để dùng rất đơn giản: ví dụ có một file cube.stl và bạn muốn đổi nó thành cube.gts, cú pháp cần gõ trong terminal như sau:
”’ stl2gts < cube.slt > cube.gts ”’
Thường thì quá trình convert diễn ra khá nhanh. Ngay khi có file gts bạn có thể import vào trong YADE bình thường vì YADE có hỗ trợ python-gts.
FEM and DEM are well-known for studying structural analysis and behavior of granular materials, respectively. There are some special cases that we wish to combine the two methods to profit all the strong points from both methods. Here are a list of what I’ve found till the writing time of this blog post.
1. YADE – OOFEM
YADE is pretty well-known in Europe as an open-source DEM tool, written in C++ and PYTHON, and OOFEM is a FEM tool (latest version is 2017).
2. YADE – ESYS
Also from YADE document page, the link between FEM-DEM has been made using these two tools.
Very basic at the moment, lacks some serious development.
3. EDEM – ABAQUS
From version 2018, EDEM shows some supports for porting to ABAQUS. To some academic members, ABAQUS is their favorite numerical tool to do structural analysis.
4. YADE – COMSOL
There is a module developed by University of Ottawa, Canada to couple FEM-DEM using YADE and COMSOL based on JAVA linking.
It is normal that we use a presentation more than one time for different conference. Anytime doing that, modifying the footer, where the conference’s name and the date are, is an important job to do to avoid embarrassing moment.
It is pretty obvious that you can simply open Slide Master and edit directly the footer text to whatever you want. However, for Powerpoit 2016 and later, when you do that and return to the slide, the old text content is still there and the modification you’ve done is applicable only for new slide.
In order to edit that, now what we should do is manually edit them. Not slide by slide but by Insert -> Header & Footer -> Modify the content, then click “Apply to All”.
It’s a nuisance but we can solve it by that trick.
Anyone who works in academy world would hear at least once about using Zotero to manage the reference. In this post I will show you how to install Zotero and set it up properly to max out its capacity by connecting increasing the storage size, connect with sci-hub, and how to grab a paper from a journal in just one click. I mention only Windows platform, but on Linux it is pretty similar.
Well Google is your friend and installing Zotero is as easy as installing other software on a Windows computer. Here is the homepage of the Zotero we are talking about:
https://www.zotero.org/
(by the time I paste that link, I realize Zotero has just introduced a new tool called Zoterobib for fast crafting a abstract. Nice work Zotero!).
Just download the file and install on Windows platform, as well as the Firefox add-on because you will need that.
If you installed Zotero on your lab computer, chance is it will be easy to grab a PDF when you are browser those journals website. If your institute has access to the source, just click the button of the add-on in Firefox while Zotero in running to let it connect to the database and make a copy on your local computer for you. Next time you can navigate inside Zotero and read the PDF however you like.
If you install on your personal computer or if you connect to a paper that your school does not have access, then you have few other choices to get the PDF: (a) message directly the corresponding author of the paper, normally they will reply you very fast if you have interest in their work (we are! we are really happy when there is someone want to read what we are doing!); (b) if you cannot wait, there is the site sci-hub where you can search and download the paper for free, then go to Zotero and attach the PDF to the paper query in Zotero; (c) or you can do the b step automatically by modifying a bit of how Zotero searching for the PDF, thanks to a great tip by Simon on medium. Using (b) and (c) may be illegal in some countries so prepare to secure your connection (tip: don’t worry much, people just don’t care).
Zotero itself supports free user with 300MB to store and sync the paper they collect across all server and to be fair this is enough. However when you are working with a big database, it is advised to use a WebDav (Dropbox, GDrive…) to sync your files there. I advise you to use pcloud service because they offer 10GB and it is very easier to configure. Guys at Berkeley University wrote a clear instruction to do that. Enjoy your fast 10GB!
Last info I want to share is bringing Zotero to Android phone. The situation we may encounter is there is possibility that you want to read again a paper from your library when you are in a seminar without your laptop, or you are on a bus and you cannot wait till home to open and grab the idea. So let us install a connector of Zotero on Android phone to make it work.
There are several apps who help us do that trick. Although they are still having limits, but basically they do the job: connect to Zotero, sync the library and download the PDF. I recommend ZotEZ², don’t let the rating fool you, it really depends on what you want, if you just want to look at the library the most simple way and want to download the PDF and read on your phone, this app deserves a 5-star rating. It is free and with some in-app purchases you can unlock other utilities which is probably useful for you with a rather OK price (~5 euros).
I shared what I am using for my research. Few free to add some more comments if you know Zotero can do more or there is better option to do those tasks (I know there is!). Hope the provided information helps you and your research work. May the force be with you!
More and more people are using Anaconda for their Python needs. One important thing to notice is that Python has two version 2.7 (supported till 2020) and 3.6. Some packages are still using Python 2.7, also, when you install a suite of program for certain purpose (data analysis, image processing…), creating one environment for each purpose is a wise move.
Sublime Text (ST) is a very fast and intuitive text editor, it supports Win/Linux/Mac. We can download and use it for free (with some notification about purchasing), or we can buy a license ($80) at the time I write this blog post.
Running a Python script in ST is simple. You edit the script, choose the build system as Python, then Ctrl + B or choose Build to run the script. However, this would work only when you define Python Path for the system. How about those environment you created in Anaconda? You can do that easily by the package in ST, named CONDA.
To install CONDA, you need Package Manager inside ST. The complete guide can be found here. Then in ST, you should choose the Build System as Conda instead of Python. Now every time to want to activate the right environment, in ST just press Ctrl + Shift + P (to open the Package Option Panel) then type in CONDA, all the possible options are there.
You may be familiar with quick-sort, but when you stumble across this problem, it turns out to be a lot more complex. Since you need to determine the method that involves the fewest moves possible, you will have to take another approach. The given problem can be re-stated into this problem:
Hien is the class monitor and he wants his classmates to form a line, in which the height of every students is in ascending order. He needs to form that line by moving his classmates from the line to the start or end of it and it has to be a quick process, since Hien is very lazy and needs to play Age Of Empires right away. Write an algorithm to help him.
First line: n.
Second line: n numbers indicating the height of every student in the class, each seperated by a space.
n ≤ 100; H[i] ≤ 100000 (H[i] is the height of an individual).
An integer indicating the fewest moves possible.
4
2 1 3 5
1
The student with height 1 is moved to the start of the line.
Let’s not pay attention to the ‘fewest moves’ for a while. Normally, when you see these types of ‘moving’ elements to start or end of an array, you can take a look at a basic approach.
Let’s take the Sample input as an example. With the basic approach, we search for the smallest element in the array, which is now 1. After that, we move it to the far right of the array. Then, we search for the next smallest element, which is 2, and we keep doing it until 5 is moved to the far right of the array. We come to the conclusion that for this approach, the number of moves that are taken is exactly equal to the number of elements present in the array itself. But let’s have a closer look. We can see that 2, 3 and 5 are contiguous, meaning that the relative order between them is not changed at all when sorting is completed. So, we can know that in the required algorithm, we need to conserve the order of contiguous integers. That is when std::pair comes to use.
Std::pair is a pre-defined class in C++. A pair element is consisted of 2 other sub-elements, which can be classified as first and second. In the algorithm we are searching for, as stated earlier, we can utilise std::pair to get the job done by assigning the input elements to first and its index to second.
After that, quick-sort comes in handy. We then use it to sort the array in ascending order. Because std::pair is used, when sorting the elements, each index is carried along with the data. Then, we can just compare the indexes of every subsequent element. Job done!
Theo số liệu thống kê báo Tuổi Trẻ đưa năm 2018 thì người Việt đọc 1,2 cuốn sách/năm. Hơi ít, không biết thống kê có sai không, hy vọng là sai. Review vài cuốn để các bạn có thời gian tìm đọc cũng như né để khỏi tốn thời gian. Mong rằng sang năm 2019 cái số thống kê nó cao hơn.
Đọc sách là rất tốt nhé.
Cuốn What The French! nói về Pháp rất là hài, nhiều thông tin nửa khen nửa chê nước Pháp nhưng vẫn rất lịch sự, không thiên vị chút nào. Đọc để biết dân Pháp giáo dục con cái như thế nào, dân Pháp họ nhảy nhót như thế nào, apero là cái quái gì v.v… ai thích học một cái gì đó về Pháp cũng như giải trí rất tốt. Đọc từ cách đây 2 năm nhưng thỉnh thoảng vẫn đem ra đọc lại.
Cuốn Sympathizer thì mấy năm trước đã được giải sách ở Mỹ, không bàn nhiều, nên mua về, để đấy đọc sau (tui cũng chưa đọc haha mặc dù trên kệ đã mấy năm).
Ai thích có một cái nhìn vui vui về cuộc đời dân nghiên cứu khoa học (làm thí nghiệm, mặc áo blouse trắng, đo đạc chính xác…) thì cuốn Lab Girl phải nói cực hay. Tác giả khởi đầu sách bằng việc nói về bố mình là một giáo sư trong trường đại học và hồi cô còn bé ông hay dẫn cô đến lab. Có những thứ phức tạp nhưng được tác giả giải thích đơn giản dễ hiểu, có một số từ chuyên môn nhưng tra từ điển phát ra ngay. Đọc để thấy yêu trái đất này hơn.
Cuốn Đừng bao giờ đi ăn một mình là nhảm nhí. Lớn lên muốn đi ăn một mình hay không là tùy, đi ăn một mình cũng chả làm bạn chết. Lí do thì coi trong cuốn tiếp theo.
Đó là khi bạn là dân Introvert, này không có gì lạ: hơn 1/3 dân số thế giới là Introvert nên nếu bạn vô tình phát hiện ra bạn là Introvert thì bạn cũng không là cái gì đặc biệt hay ngoại lệ hết. Và khi người ta đang party thì bạn ở nhà và đọc cuốn Text, don’t call.
Nếu bạn ngấp nghé muốn lập gia đình cũng như gần gần như vậy, thì đọc cuốn bìa màu vàng nhé. Không bàn nôi dung nhiều, đọc thì biết, nhưng có một câu trong đó là “That you don’t have to be married to be happy in life, but you will be happily married if you first discover your singleness on time before marriage”
Cuốn cùng lại nói về cuốn cũ rích Nhà Giả Kim, tôi biết cuốn ngày từ lâu lắc lâu lơ và thấy nó chả có gì đặc biệt. Chả hiểu tại sao nhiều năm gần đây đi đâu cũng thấy các bạn trẻ quote từ cuốn sách quá trời quá đất. Nếu chấm điểm thì tôi chấm 5/10. Bạn cùng phòng cũng phổ cập thêm là cuốn sách này bị bạn đọc trên toàn thế giới chê tan tác.
Mấy cuốn còn lại mới hốt về chưa đọc, review sau. Nếu không thấy review có nghĩa là sách quá dở hoặc người quá lười.
